Dr. Robert Armstrong
Associate Professor, History
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Robert Armstrong, "Beasts with claws": the English Republic, the Presbyterian Peril and the Ulster Question, Journal of British Studies, 61, 2022, p396-421
Robert Armstrong, Review of Law and Revolution in Seventeenth-Century Ireland, by Coleman A. Dennehy , Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 41, (1), 2021, p110-1
Planting Protestantism in urban Ulster in, editor(s)Brendan Scott , Society and administration in Ulster's plantation towns, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2019, pp167-88 , [Robert Armstrong]
Protestant England and the English Bible in, editor(s)Robert Armstrong & Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin , The English Bible in the early modern world, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp1-28 , [Robert Armstrong]
Robert Armstrong & Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin , The English Bible in the early modern world, Leiden, Brill, 2018
Establishing a confessional Ireland, 1641-91 in, editor(s)Jane Ohlmeyer , Cambridge History of Ireland, volume 2, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp220-45 , [Robert Armstrong]
Telling the Presbyterian story in eighteenth-century Ireland: John McBride and James Kirkpatrick in, editor(s)Jacqueline Hill & Mary Ann Lyons , Representing Irish Religious Histories, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp37-51 , [Robert Armstrong]
Religious conflict and community in early modern Ireland: the Presbyterian Question in, editor(s)Katsumi Fukasawa, Benjamin J. Kaplan, Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire , Religious interactions in Europe and the Mediterranean World, Abingdon & New York, Routledge, 2017, pp79-90 , [Robert Armstrong]
Irish Historical Studies, XL, 157, (2016), 1-150p, Robert Armstrong & Robert McNamara, [eds.]
Presbyterian History in Ireland: two seventeenth-century narratives, Robert Armstrong, Andrew R. Holmes, R. Scott Spurlock, Patrick Walsh, Belfast:, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2016, - i-xvi, 1-381
Adair, Stewart and Presbyterian Ulster in, editor(s)Robert Armstrong, Andrew R. Holmes, R. Scott Spurlock, Patrick Walsh , Presbyterian History in Ireland:two seventeenth-century narratives, Belfast, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2016, pp1-28 , [Robert Armstrong]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXIX, 155, (2015), 357 - 552p, Robert Armstrong & Robert McNamara, [eds.]
Thinking like a Presbyterian in 1690s Ireland in, editor(s)Crawford Gribben and Scott Spurlock , Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp195-216 , [Robert Armstrong]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXIX, 156, (2015), 551 - 728p, Robert Armstrong & Robert McNamara, [eds.]
The Scots of Ireland and the English Republic, 1649-60 in, editor(s)David Edwards , The Scots in early Stuart Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2015, pp251-78 , [Robert Armstrong]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXIX, 153, (2014), 1-177p, Robert Armstrong & Robert McNamara, [eds.]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXIX, 154, (2014), 179 - 366p, Robert Armstrong & Robert McNamara, [eds.]
Celtic Christianities in the Age of Reformations: Language, Community, Tradition and Belief in, editor(s)Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin and Robert Armstrong , Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp179-95, 239-47 , [Robert Armstrong]
The Bishops of Ireland and the Beasts at Ephesus: Reconstruction, Conformity and the Presbyterian Knot, 1660-2 in, editor(s)N. H. Keeble , Settling the Peace of the Church: 1662 Revisited, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp114-43 , [Robert Armstrong]
Cavan and the Presbyterian frontier in the early eighteenth century in, editor(s)Jonathan Cherry and Brendan Scott , Cavan: history and society, Dublin, Geography Publications, 2014, pp217-40 , [Robert Armstrong]
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin and Robert Armstrong, Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World, 1st, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 1-254pp
The War of the Three Kings, 1688-91 in, editor(s)Alvin Jackson , Oxford handbook of modern Irish history, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp375-97 , [Robert Armstrong]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXVIII, 152, (2013), 558-749p, Robert Armstrong & Robert McNamara, [eds.]
The Irish alternative: Scots and English in Presbyterianism in Ireland in, editor(s)Robert Armstrong and Tadhg O hAnnrachain , Insular Christianity: alternative models of the Church in Britain and Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2013, pp207-30 , [Robert Armstrong]
Robert Armstrong and Tadhg O hAnnrachain , Insular Christianity: alternative models of the Church in Britain and Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2013, 1- 271 pp
Alternative establishments? Insular catholicism and Presbyterianism in, editor(s)Robert Armstrong and Tadhg O hAnnrachain , Insular Christianity: alternative models of the Church in Britain and Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2013, pp1-27 , [Robert Armstrong and Tadhg O hAnnrachain]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXVIII, 151, (2013), 385-556p, Robert Armstrong & Robert McNamara, [eds.]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXVIII, 150, (2012), 187-384p, Robert Armstrong & Fearghal McGarry, [eds.]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXVIII, 149, (2012), 1-186p, Robert Armstrong & Fearghal McGarry, [eds.]
Claudius Gilbert and his books in, editor(s)W. E. Vaughan , The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, pp112-21 , [Robert Armstrong]
Irish Historical Studies, XXXVII, 148, (2011), 517-671 - Robert Armstrong & Fearghal McGarry, [eds.]
Viscount Ards and the presbytery: politics and religion among the Scots of Ulster in the 1640s in, editor(s)William P. Kelly, John R. Young , Scotland and the Ulster Plantations, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009, pp18-40 , [Robert Armstrong]
66 entries, James McGuire & James Quinn, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, [Robert Armstrong]
Robert Armstrong, The Long Parliament goes to war: the Irish campaigns, 1641-1643, Historical Research, 80, (207), 2007, p73-99
Robert Armstrong, Ireland's Puritan Revolution ? The origins of Ulster Presbyterianism reconsidered, English historical review, 121, (493), 2006, p1048-74
Eunan O'Halpin, Robert Armstrong and Jane Ohlmeyer, Intelligence, statecraft and international power, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006, 1-246pp
Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Community in early modern Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts, 2006, 1-240pp
Introduction: making and remaking community in early modern Ireland in, editor(s)Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin , Community in early modern Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts, 2006, pp13-33 , [Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin]
Of stories and sermons: nationality and spirituality in Presbyterian Ulster in the later seventeenth century in, editor(s)Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin , Community in early modern Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts, 2006, pp215-31 , [Robert Armstrong]
Robert Armstrong, Protestant war: the British of Ireland and the wars of the three kingdoms, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005, 1-261pp
Protestant churchmen and the confederate wars' in, editor(s)Ciaran Brady, Jane Ohlmeyer , British interventions in early modern Ireland, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp230-51 , [Robert Armstrong]
Apsley, Sir Alan (1566/7-1630), Argall, John (b. in or before 1545, d. 1606), Aylworth [alias Harcourt], William (1623-1679), Birckbeck, Simon (1583/4-1656), Bradshaigh [alias Barton], Richard (1601/2-1669), Catcher [alias Burton], Edward (c.1585-1623), Chichester, Sir Arthur, first earl of Donegall (1606-1675), Cooling, Richard (d. 1697), Corby, Ambrose (1604-1649), Eustace, Sir Maurice (1590-95-1665), Hill, Arthur (1601-1663), Mayart, Sir Samuel (b. 1587, d. in or after 1646), Mervyn, Sir Audley (1603?-1675), Montgomery, Hugh, first earl of Mount-Alexander (b. in or before 1626, d. 1663), Pennyman, Sir William, (1606/7-1643), Persall [alias Harcourt], John (1633-1701), Rawdon, Sir George, (1604-1684), Sale [alias Neville], Edmund (1604/5-1647/8), Thorold [alias Carwell], Thomas (c.1600-1664), Tichborne, Sir Henry (1581?-1667), Wigmore [alias Campion], William (c.1599-1665), H. C. G. Matthew & Brian Harrison, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004, [R. M. Armstrong]
Ireland at Westminster: the Long Parliament's Irish committees, 1641-1647 in, editor(s)Chris R. Kyle, Jason Peacey , Parliament at work: parliamentary committees, political power and public access in early modern England, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2002, pp79-99 , [Armstrong R.]
Ormond, the confederate peace talks and Protestant Ireland in, editor(s)Micheál Ó Siochrú , Kingdoms in crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2001, pp122-40 , [Robert Armstrong]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Preaching Presbyterian style: James Alexander of Convoy in, editor(s)Salvador Ryan & Brendan Leahy , Treasures of Irish Christianity II: a people of the Word, Dublin, Veritas, 2013, pp153-5 , [Robert Armstrong]
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Insular Christianity 1530-1750
- Summary
- This innovative three-year project will support the editing of important texts in Irish religious history; I will be one of the editors of a new edition of the foundation text of Irish Presbyterian historiography, Patrick Adair's True narrative. A more distinctive aspect involves bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, and with expertise in the history one or more of the insular nations, to collaborate through mutual criticism of pre-circulated papers, and meetings in a series of symposia. A volume of studies will be produced on each of our three themes: Catholicism and Presbyterianism compared; Celtic Christianity; the impact of the English Bible.
- Funding Agency
- IRCHSS
- Date From
- 2008
- Date To
- 2010
- Title
- The emergence of Irish Presbyterianism
- Summary
- I intend to work towards a full-length study of the emergence of Presbyterianism in Ireland, embracing its subject in cultural, social and political as well as ecclesiastical or theological terms.
- Funding Agency
- TCD Arts and Humanities Benefactions Fund
- Date From
- 2007
Recognition
Representations
Irish Manuscripts Commission
Joint editor (articles), Irish Historical Studies
Editorial and Publications Committee, Irish Manuscripts Commission
Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grants Scheme: external assessors for applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences category.
Editorial Board, Irish Historical Studies
Board of Directors, Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd
Peer reviewer for journal articles for: English Historical Review; Huguenot Society Journal; Irish Historical Studies; Journal of British Studies; Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy; Scottish Historical Review
Peer reviewer for books proposals for: Ashgate; Liverpool University Press; Manchester University Press; Palgrave Macmillan.
Committee member, Irish Association of Professional Historians
Advisory Board, Irish Association of Professional Historians
Awards and Honours
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
Provost's Teaching Award
Memberships
Irish Historical Society
Ecclesiastical History Society
Irish Association of Professional Historians
Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland